Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My earnings now had to pay the mortgage and household bills as well as subsidise the café . |
| 2 | Her parents only came to appreciate the impact the plaintiff had made on others before her accident from the tributes that were paid to her by outsiders of the family during the months the plaintiff was in a coma at Addenbrookes . |
| 3 | For the next four years her relatives reportedly tried to find a country that would receive her body for burial , but were turned away until they reached Peru . |
| 4 | The main thrust of Lukacs 's criticism is that the rich potentiality of socialist realism degenerated for the most part into what he terms the " anaemia of socialist naturalism " because its practitioners deliberately chose to substitute the profundity of Marx 's original dialectical understanding of reality for the banality and facility of Stalinist economic subjectivism " , the inevitable consequence of the Stalinist personality cult . |
| 5 | The infant welfare movement , like the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , whose inspectors also began to enter the working class home during the 1890s , too often interpreted lack of cleanliness as neglect . |
| 6 | Graham was unhappy that his forwards again failed to convert a succession of chances against Ipswich on Saturday , and said : ‘ Maybe I 'll have to leave one or two skilful players out , because at the end of the day you have to win games . ’ |
| 7 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 8 | Its practical effect was not very great ; but it began an attack on what radicals later came to call the ‘ old corruption ’ , the network of sinecures and jobbery which still played a large role in British political life . |